Picking Green Bananas : Ripening Transferred University Technology: A Guide to Acquiring Unexploited Intellectual Property for Start-up Businesses

Many unexploited technologies have been discovered via joint university/industry/government funding, but most remain buried in dusty university Technology Transfer Office files, not judged to be Patent-worthy by administrators not as likely to be as smart as YOU are! And, for that reason, they can be acquired cheaply for exploitation by your new start-up firm. This book shows you how, and provides some successful and unsuccessful examples. Remember, probably half the money spent developing these technologies has already come from YOU, by way of taxation.. Why waste it?